Vetted Azure DevOps Professionals

“Built and owned core systems for VISTA, a VR drone training simulator in Unity/C#, including modular training scenarios, drone physics, restricted airspace logic, and dynamic weather-aware gameplay. Stands out for combining VR performance discipline on Meta Quest with realistic-yet-trainable flight controls and close collaboration with faculty SMEs to align the simulation with real training workflows.”

“Master’s-level IoT course project that the candidate helped evolve into a research lab effort by “ROSifying” a soil-fertility detection rover (autonomous navigation within a GPS geofence, sensor fusion, and rover-to-base-station telemetry via NRF24 to a Raspberry Pi dashboard). Also built a ROS/Gazebo vision-based teleoperation system using a SigLIP hand-gesture model mapped to geometry_msgs/Twist, and improved stability by instrumenting and filtering a latency-prone perception-to-control pipeline.”

“Frontend engineer who led the end-to-end UI for an internal employee catalog tool at Genetec, building React/TypeScript dashboards with complex search filters. Emphasizes tight product-owner feedback loops (weekly demos), Figma-based design alignment, and disciplined delivery practices using CI/CD, automated tests, and version tagging for rollouts/reverts.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owns policy-lifecycle workflow microservices built in Python/FastAPI with async + DDD, Kafka event processing, SQLAlchemy, JWT/RBAC, and Redis caching (cut DB load ~40%). Experienced deploying Java and Python microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD) plus Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines to AWS/ECR, and has supported phased on-prem-to-cloud migrations with dependency mapping and data consistency strategies.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience deploying models to production and optimizing for low-latency inference using pruning/quantization, with deployments on AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Has orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines with Airflow and Kubeflow (ingestion through evaluation) and emphasizes reproducibility via containerization and version-controlled artifacts, while effectively partnering with non-technical stakeholders using dashboards and business-aligned metrics.”

“Backend engineer with American Express experience maintaining an internal Python/Flask rewards simulation microservice used by product analysts and QA. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability work: moved batch simulations to Celery, added Redis caching to cut DynamoDB latency, and tuned Postgres/SQLAlchemy queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexes (bringing API responses under ~200ms by queueing jobs). Also has experience integrating ML via Flask-based model-serving APIs (scikit-learn/LightGBM packaged with joblib) and designing multi-tenant data isolation and tenant-specific configuration systems.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer in the insurance domain who built and shipped an AI-driven risk scoring/fraud detection service for underwriting. Runs containerized .NET Core and Python inference services on Azure (AKS + GPU nodes) with Terraform/ARM and Azure DevOps CI/CD, and has hands-on experience improving reliability under peak load plus implementing production AI guardrails (drift monitoring, fallbacks, human review, audit logs).”

“Data engineer focused on AWS-based enterprise data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from multi-source batch/stream ingestion (Glue/Kinesis/StreamSets/Airflow) through PySpark transformations into curated datasets for Redshift/Snowflake. Emphasizes production reliability with strong monitoring/observability and data quality gates, and reports ~30% performance improvement plus improved SLAs and latency after optimization.”

“Backend engineer (Marsh McLennan) who evolved a high-volume claims automation pipeline in Python, emphasizing thin APIs with background job processing, strong validation/retries, and production-grade observability. Experienced in secure FastAPI API design (centralized JWT/RBAC), multi-tenant Postgres/Supabase-style row-level security, and low-risk refactors using parallel runs and feature flags; targeting founding-engineer scope roles.”

“Data/QA-focused professional with experience at Lonza and Jio Platforms, owning end-to-end data reliability work for QC forecasting (SAP/LIMS) and driving root-cause/corrective actions for recurring environment configuration issues. Strong in SQL-based data standardization/validation, requirements tightening for API consistency, and coordinating multi-workstream delivery using Jira/Azure DevOps.”

“Data engineer with healthcare domain experience who has owned end-to-end pipelines and APIs at UnitedHealth Group, processing ~8M records per batch. Strong focus on data quality (multi-layer validation), reliability (monitoring/logging, retries/idempotency), and performance (Spark/SQL tuning, caching), with experience standing up early-stage systems using Python, Docker, and CI/CD.”

“Data engineer in a banking context who has owned end-to-end Azure lakehouse pipelines ingesting financial/vendor data from APIs, Azure SQL, and flat files into Databricks/Delta (bronze-silver-gold). Emphasizes production reliability via schema-drift validation, data quality controls, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing, and Spark/Delta performance tuning, with outputs served to BI/reporting teams (e.g., Tableau).”

Mike Gardiner

Screened

Technology Executive / Engineering Director specializing in AI-driven platform transformation

Lehi, UT12y exp

“Built a 0-to-1 iOS mobile gardening application that helps users plan, track, and harvest crops with pest control guidance, weather, and climate-zone-based planting date recommendations. Demonstrated strong customer discovery and MVP-first product execution, including a major data challenge: compiling US climate zone data for every ZIP code from widely dispersed public sources into an app-ready database.”

Pravalika Badam

Screened

Mid-level QA/SDET Automation Tester specializing in UI, API, mobile, and cloud testing

Houston, TX5y exp

“SDET focused on end-to-end quality for web applications, owning UI/API/regression automation from framework design through CI/CD integration. Notably prevented a production payment/checkout incident by adding API validations that caught incorrect tax calculations (rounding logic) during CI before release, and has a track record of stabilizing flaky Cypress tests via robust selector and wait strategies.”

Aishwarya Yenumula

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in microservices, React, and Azure

Austin, TX5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time loyalty rewards notification system at Dell, spanning React UI, Spring Boot/Node microservices, Kafka event processing, and Oracle/Postgres persistence. Strong production operations experience across AKS/Azure DevOps and AWS (EC2/RDS/S3, autoscaling, CloudWatch), including resolving peak-load Kafka lag and API latency incidents through scaling and performance tuning.”

Venkat Palaparthi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and secure enterprise platforms

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership in banking/identity & entitlements systems, building Spring Boot + Postgres/Redis services and React dashboards, then deploying on AWS EKS with Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrated impact through reduced authorization latency and fewer access-related support tickets, plus strong observability and reliability practices (CloudWatch, tracing, autoscaling, Kafka pipelines with DLQs and reconciliation).”

Kwadwo Poku

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud platforms

Yonkers, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”

“Data-focused engineer who has built near real-time trending news sentiment pipelines end-to-end (API/web ingestion, validation, transformations, and dashboard serving) and implemented reliability patterns like retries with exponential backoff and backfills. Also shipped Java/Spring Boot REST APIs backed by SQL with indexing/pagination, and stood up an early-stage QR-based attendance MVP using Firebase with iterative hardening via logging and validation.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

“AI/ML engineer at MRI Software focused on taking LLM and RAG systems from prototype to reliable production. Notable work includes an AI automation system for migrating 1200+ legacy pages with 75-80% manual effort reduction, plus enterprise document-querying and reusable Python LLM infrastructure that cut lookup time by 70% and improved team velocity by 30-40%.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

rhema junapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native healthcare and insurance platforms

Albany, OR3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and claims-domain experience who has shipped AI-assisted documentation and fraud-scoring systems using Angular, ASP.NET Core, OpenAI APIs, and ML tooling. Stands out for building compliance-aware, traceable agentic architectures with graceful degradation, and for a nuanced understanding of AI failure modes in production.”

“Early-career engineer who built and launched a zero-to-one AI-driven approval workflow at SDSU that is used daily by roughly 2,000 university users. They owned the system end-to-end—from FastAPI/PostgreSQL backend to React UI—and showed strong judgment around LLM reliability, using a two-step pipeline, validation checks, and human-review fallbacks to cut manual processing time by about 80%.”